Episode 48 - Christ, The Life And Light Of Men.

Today we're going to be starting a Bible study on the Book of John.

And for the next several weeks we're gonna be looking at the Book of John.

And today we're starting with the first chapter, verses one through five.

The Gospel of John has been well called the Gospel of eternity, for it's

the gospel of God. John was a especially prepared vessel for this very honorable

ministry. He had been from his youth, they beloved apostle. His head

had rested on the Lord's breast. He had stood beside the cross, had

witnessed the ascension at cherished child or death. The mother of the Lord,

had seen the Jewish and censation closed in the Holy City overthrown, and to

him the Pietific visions of the apocalypse had been granted. This was spoken by

Alfred Plumber. The great purpose of this gospel is very fittingly expressed in chapter

John twenty thirty one. These have been written that you may believe that Jesus

is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have

life in his name. All the key words of his gospel are found in

this verse. The opening words of this chapter among the most profound ever penned

by the hand of man. They reveal a threefold relationship of the Lord Jesus

Christ and his first relationship to God. He has called the word the logos

Christ himself as the uttered speech and thought of God. Is the visible expression

of the invisible God. For the life which was with the Father was manifested

into us. Said first John one two. This word was in the beginning

the Lord possessed me, in the beginning of his ways. I was daily

in his delight. Proverbate twenty two, verse through thirty. The word was

with God. Yes, more of the word was God. Man's finite mind

cannot grasp in the mystery of the Trinity. But the devout believer can bow

on a door that he who was within the form of God and thought it

not robbery to be equal with God, should make himself of no reputation,

taking upon him the form of a servant and dying on a cross for the

sin of the world is a mystery of grace that can only be fathomed by

the mystery of the Trinity. And second, his relationship to creation, and

John one three says all things were made by Him, and without him was

not anything made that was made Ephesians three nine. Paul taught the same doctrine.

God created all things by Jesus Christ. It pleased God to bring the

old creation into his being through the instrumentality of his son. It has also

pleased Him that the new creation should be in Christ Jesus he Brews one two.

By him he made the world, and by him he seeks also to

redeem this world blest and sin. He by whom God made all things,

has also made peace by the blood of his cross. The Lord Jesus Christ,

as the Word of God, holds the same position towards the New creation

as He did to the old. Without him. Was that anything made without

him, God did nothing, So without him we can do nothing. All

things were created by Him and for him, and by him all things consist

or hold together. He is the center and support of all, as well

as the maker. Thou art worthy, o Lord, to receive glory and

honor and power, for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure,

that they are and were created. In Revelation four eleven, If all things

were created for his pleasure, surely he shall see of the travail of his

soul and be satisfied. And third we'll look at his relationship to men.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Why

is the life spoken of as a light of men and not of creation.

He has made the light of this material universe, But he is the light

of men. Man is something distinct from and superior to other creative things.

He is a personality that needs the divine personality to meet his Everyone in him

was life. The source of life was in him, and God, in

giving us his son, hath given us to eternal life. First John and

five eleven. The life manifested in Christ Jesus is the true light which should

lighten every man coming into the world. I am come that they might have

life. Christ is the word of God. Is that the living bread which

came down from Heaven, that a man may eat and not die. Man

shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God that observe

First what this light is? The life was the light too. Where this

light shines, the light shineth in darkness. Christ As the light did not

shine on the darkness of the world, but in the darkness he was made

flash. He dwelt among us. His own words were I came, I

am coming a light into the world. In John twelve forty six, the

purpose of the light is to overcome the darkness. The center of this darkness

is the human heart. The God who commanded light to shine out of darkness

is he wos shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of

God. Set In presents Horse X. The effect of its shining the darkness

comprehended it not. Two words are used in the revised version, one in

the text than the other in the margin, which if taken separately, bring

out the twofold result that the shining of the true light first the darkness apprehended

it not the darkness of willful unbelief remained unconscious of the dawning of this new

day Luke nineteen forty two through forty four. They knew not the time of

their visitation, and two the darkness overcame it not, thank God that in

the case of many, the darkness of sinning fear was not able to overcome

or resist the bright shining of its truth. No matter how dense the darkness

is, it cannot in any way overcome the purity of or purpose of the

light. The light shines on, but men may condemned themselves by loving the

darkness rather than the light in John three nineteen. And next we'll have another

lesson on John, and we'll be looking at Versas sixteen thirteen next time. God bless